The Story That Never Happened
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's the great reconciliation story which never happened -- Andrew Hosken in Libya on a homecoming which didn't take place. Nigel Wilson tells us of the dangers involved in trying to provide a taste of home to Syrians stuck in Jordan. Marie Keyworth on the Portuguese struggling to get by as the long recession continues. In Croatia, Mick Webb finds many enthusiastic about joining the EU - the country's set to become a full member next month. And who's for some red-braised wallaby tail with native fruits? Not many Australians apparently. Fuchsia Dunlop says there's a reluctance to tuck in to some of the local wildlife. Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is a download of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:03.7 | We make one edition of the programme for the BBC World Service, but this is the one broadcast |
| 0:08.1 | on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Here to introduce it, Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.8 | Today, the great reconciliation which never took place in Libya and probably never will. |
| 0:18.0 | There's danger in providing a taste of home for Syrians stuck in the Jordanian capital, Armand. |
| 0:24.0 | Portugal's out on strike, but what went wrong for the people who believe they did everything right? |
| 0:29.0 | And succulent tale of kangaroo, anyone? |
| 0:32.0 | Apparently it's delicious, but Australians, it seems, aren't |
| 0:36.1 | so keen. Almost 20 months after the death of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya is still struggling to come to terms with his legacy |
| 0:44.4 | and the aftermath of revolution and war. Security remains a serious problem. |
| 0:49.3 | At least two men were reported killed overnight in clashes between rival militia groups in the capital, |
| 0:55.0 | Tripoli. And perhaps just as important in the long term is the issue of reconciliation. |
| 1:00.0 | This week the people of Tuwager had been planning to return to their town. |
| 1:04.0 | They'd sided with Gaddafi during the fighting and afterwards were thrown out of their homes |
| 1:09.0 | by fighters from neighbouring Misrata. |
| 1:12.0 | 30,000 are now refugees in their own country as a result. |
| 1:16.0 | Andrew Hoskin was in Libya this week ready to report on their return. |
| 1:20.0 | I'd like to tell you about the story that never was, about the great reconciliation that never happened, |
| 1:27.0 | and about the return of a disgraced people to the city of their fathers that never took place. If that's one of the stranger sales pitches you've heard |
| 1:35.4 | from someone of my attention-seeking trade, please bear with me. I do still have a tale, |
| 1:40.4 | a tale of two cities in fact, and it's a tragedy in which one city utterly |
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